What is recorded here
The Anglesey Arms and Caernarfon Castle is a castle, fort or tower in Gwynedd, Wales. Perhaps its stones still hold the heat of hands that built them. Maybe its rooms still echo with voices that loved or raged inside them. Imagine it standing unchanged while years carry everyone else away.
A named place photographed at this map point in Gwynedd.
Caernarfon Castle was built by Edward I of England in the late 13th century, primarily to consolidate English control over North Wales following the conquest of the region. It is important as a key example of medieval military architecture and as a symbol of both English dominance and Welsh cultural resilience.
Places near here
'he Castle Hotel, Y MaesCastle, fort or tower · 1 yd
A hill top folly which has found a new use in the age of mobile phonesMountain or hill · 1 yd
Castle House - a vacant shopCastle, fort or tower · 1 yd
Memorial Plaque for L.W Brabazon-Rees VC, MCHeritage place · 1 yd
The former railway trackbed approaching what was Caernarfon StationHeritage place · 1 yd
The War Memorial, CaernarfonHeritage place · 1 yd
The West Wall and Belfry of St Mary's Church from the PromenadeChurch, cross or graveyard · 1 yd
Yr Iard Goed - The Wood YardForest or wood · 1 yd
Coed Helen HillMountain / peak · 153 yd
Traeth Tros 'Rabar BeachBeach · 258 yd
Caernarfon CastleCastle, fort or tower · 292 yd
Royal Welch Fusiliers MuseumMuseum · 312 ydOther information
Photo: Eric Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0